Jason,
My history tells me Russ is right on the money. Pull out EVERYTHING except
the processor. You said the video was integrated so leave it but don't
connect it. Remove the ram, all expansion cards, any cables to the drives,
etc.. Disconnect the power cables. This time pull out the battery in the
motherboard and 'short' the connectors together for the battery. Then
reinstall the battery and the power cables. Next turn it on with nothing
except the cpu and fan installed. Then as you stated you should get a POST
error because you have no ram installed. If you get an error then turn off
and connect the ram and the video and restart again. This should tell you
if the motherboard is bad or if one of the components are bad.
HTH,
Will
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Redlin" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] New MoBo
> The video card is integrated on the mother board. I've tried three new
> memory sticks and a new power supply. THe strange thing is that one would
> think that I would at least get a beep. I don't think it's seeing the
> bios. I've had these issues with other systems and bad memory always
> gives a beep etc. I get nothing at all. Is there a way to test the bios?
>
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:04:46 -0800, Russ Poffenberger
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Hi Jason,
>>
>>The next things to check are the video card and memory. If you have any
>>other peripherals plugged in (disk, etc), remove those. Try just the
>>basics
>>installed, video, CPU and memory (power supply of course), and remove
>>everything else. This is the basic troubleshooting you do when it won't
>>boot, start with the minimum first.
>>
>>At 10:46 AM 11/7/2005, you wrote:
>>
>>>Well I took a deep breath and plugged in the 12v 4pin connector and fired
>>>it up. I didn't see smoke this time but the thing still wont boot. Not
>>>even into BIOS. The fans come on but I get no beep and of course, no
>>>video etc. When I initially turn on power to the board the keyboard
>>>flashes but that's it. This is essentially the same problem I've have
>>>with this thing from the get go. By the way, I performed this out of the
>>>chassis just to be sure there were no shorts. I tried clearing cmos
>>>again
>>>and that didn't help either.
>>
>>Russ Poffenberger
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